Year-End-Backup-Copy

[hbilke]

There is an admin with old habits. He wants a precise copy at end-of-the-year on a separate USB/NAS some removable device (no they didn't buy TAPE and don't want it)

AS neither me nor him/her are on site to trigger a Single Active-Full backup it tried to set up the following plan

Datashare is a repo keeping 2 restorepoints
keep weekly, monthly, quarterly set to "0" and pointing to the the (last) thursdays
keep full backups just 1 Yearly and last thursday of the year (30.12. this year)
synthesizing from increments
BackupCopyJob running once a day at 00:00

The plan is to remove the drive/repo in the first week of 2020 and get an archival copy:
One Full on date dec. 30th and one incr. up to the removal date.

Looks correct?

Happy Xmas to all

[Shestakov]

Hello,
Does the admin want to backup everything at the end of the year and take a copy or take a copy of existing restore points (last one or whole chain) at the end of year?
Thanks

[hbilke]

Hi,

one full Copy in the point of time. Whether it' s a separate full backup or based on existing backups is not important me thinks.

[Shestakov]

Got it.
You can create backup copy job and run it once at the end of the year. With the first run it will create full backup of all sources. After the first run is finished you just stop and remove the job.
If you already have a backup copy job, you can set a yearly GFS setting and wait when the full GFS backup is created and then simply copy the restore point to removable device.
Thanks

[wishr]

Hi Hbilke

You may also utilize Active Full Backup Copy.

Thanks